STAFF CORRESPONDENT

A two-hour discussion on convening the Constitution Reform Council will be held in parliament tomorrow.

Deputy Speaker Kayser Kamal, who was presiding over the House yesterday, made the announcement after heated exchanges between members of the treasury and opposition benches.

The debate began after opposition leader and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman submitted a notice seeking a discussion on convening the Constitution Reform Council.

Officials at the Parliament Secretariat said it has been rare for the speaker to allow discussion on such a notice since the restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1991.

After the question-and-answer session, Shafiqur took part in the unscheduled discussion and said he had raised an issue of public importance. He noted that the speaker had advised him on March 15 to submit the notice in proper form.

“We have done so. Now, through you, I am placing this notice before parliament. The subject of the notice is the July National Charter Constitution Reform Implementation Order 2025,” said the Jamaat-e-Islami ameer.

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